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Billionaire Space Flight Isn’t About Colonization. It’s Stoking a New Cold War.
Space hegemony is among the core strategies the U.S. is using to maintain its primary global superpower status.
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Peace in Ukraine Is Too Important to Leave in the Hands of Arms Dealers
Arms makers are stoking conflicts and then pitching weapons as a path to peace.
![Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 25, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/03/GettyImages-1249406495-400x300.jpg)
Putin to Station Russian Nukes in Belarus in “Dangerous Escalation”
The move follows controversial new UK plans to provide Ukraine with arms containing depleted uranium.
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Russia-US Drone Encounter Is “an Incendiary Development,” Says Jeremy Scahill
A U.S. drone crashed in international waters after being intercepted by Russian fighter jets over the Black Sea.
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“One Day Our Luck Will Run Out”: Ukraine Nuclear Plant Loses Power Again
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant lost all off-site power for the sixth time in a year amid the Russian war on Ukraine.
![A family examines the remains of a Russian tank destroyed at the beginning of the war as the first anniversary of the war between Russia and Ukraine nears, in Bucha, Ukraine, on February 22, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/02/2023_0223-ukraine-400x300.jpg)
Chomsky: A Stronger NATO Is the Last Thing We Need as Russia-Ukraine War Turns 1
It is becoming increasingly obvious that this is now a U.S./NATO-Russia war via Ukraine, Noam Chomsky argues.
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Is Withdrawing From Treaties the Nuclear Weapons Industry’s Business Plan?
The manufacture and maintenance of nuclear weapons is a uniquely profitable business monopoly with a guaranteed market.
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Germany and US Agree to Send Tanks to Ukraine Despite Concern of War Escalation
A German lawmaker says the U.S. is pushing a proxy war and underestimating the threat of Putin’s nuclear Russia.
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Chomsky: Options for Diplomacy Decline as Russia’s War on Ukraine Escalates
There is still hope if the U.S. withdraws from its insistence on sustaining the war to weaken Russia and defeat Putin.
![Protesters demanding an end to fossil fuel dependence that enables wars, including Russia's current war in Ukraine, demonstrate during the UNFCCC COP27 climate conference on November 12, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/11/GettyImages-1440937294-400x300.jpg)
Ukraine War Is Driving “a Gold Rush to New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure”
The Ukraine war has also had direct effects on climate change that will continue even after the fighting ends.